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2 Samuel 1:3

in 2 Samuel 1

“Where have you come from?” David asked. “I have escaped from the Israelite camp,” he replied.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.

KJV

And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.

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Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

From whence comest thou

on 2 Samuel 1:3-4

David questions the man twice, first where he has come from and then how the battle went, a king who has spent this whole book enquiring of the LORD before every move now forced to enquire of a stranger for word of his own king. The answer comes in the plainest terms Samuel's narrator ever uses for a defeat, the people fled, many are fallen and dead, and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also. Nothing yet distinguishes this report from what chapter 31 has already told the reader firsthand.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And David said unto him, from whence comest thou?.... It is very likely by his appearance and circumstances he suspected from whence he came: and he said unto him, out of the camp of Israel am I escaped; which plainly suggested that that was in danger, confusion, and distress.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

He gives him a general account of the issue of the battle. David was very desirous to know how the matter went, as one that had more reason than any to be concerned for the public; and he told him very distinctly that the army of Israel was routed, many slain, and, among the rest, Saul and Jonathan,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

a man came out of the camp from Saul--As the narrative of Saul's death, given in the last chapter, is inspired, it must be considered the true account, and the Amalekite's story a fiction of his own, invented to ingratiate himself with David, the presumptive successor to the throne.

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The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּ֤אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • לוֹ֙to <the> him

    lo

  • דָּוִ֔דDavid

    davidH1732 →999 times

  • אֵ֥יwhere?

    ʾeiH335 →39 times

  • מִזֶּ֖הfrom this

    mizehH2088 →1180 times

  • תָּב֑וֹאare you coming

    tavo'H935 →2568 times

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • אֵלָ֔יוto him

    ʾelavH413 →5510 times

  • מִמַּחֲנֵ֥הfrom [the] camp of

    mimachanehH4264 →215 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • נִמְלָֽטְתִּי׃I have escaped

    nimlatetiH4422 →95 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Kings 5:25

    When Gehazi went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Gehazi, where have you been?” “Your servant did not go anywhere,” he replied.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 5:22

      “Everything is all right,” Gehazi replied. “My master has sent me to say, ‘I have just now discovered that two young men from the sons of the prophets have come to me from the…

    • Acts 5:3–4

      Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?

    • John 13:26–30

      Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I give this morsel after I have dipped it.” Then He dipped the morsel and gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot.

    • 2 Kings 20:14

      Then the prophet Isaiah went to King Hezekiah and asked, “Where did those men come from, and what did they say to you?” “They came from a distant land,” Hezekiah replied, “from Babylon.”

    • Proverbs 30:20

      This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

Where this verse is studied

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About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Samuel: the study guide →Read 2 Samuel 1 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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